Help Needed Organizing.....Really

[w30bob]

Hi Guys,

I've been buying parts for my M's for about a year now....I got my first truck back in March last year. My problem is I really need some help organizing my parts. I know there are some of you out there who've been doing this for years.......so I need some tips from you guys on how to do it. I've got a workshop area downstairs that I use for M parts storage. I put up 3 nice heavy duty racks about 5 shelves each, that I put my medium to small parts on. The bigger stuff gets placed neatly on the floor usually leaning on a wall. I try to group like parts together and put them in labeled boxes. Then I fill the shelves. The immediate problem is if you put a box in front of a box you can't tell what' in the box in the back. And if you only put one row of boxes you're only using half the shelves.

Yesterday it go to the point where I could barely walk in that room without stepping on something M37 related....so I started tearing the room apart last night. I'm going to regroup things and attempt to take an inventory. This is going to take some time. But I need to know what I have and where it is when I need it. I'm getting tired of picking up something at a swap meet, bringing it home, only to find I have one (or two) already on the shelf behind something.

So help a youngin' out and let me know how you organize your stash and keep sane because of it.

Thanks,
bob

[T. Highway]

Hi Bob,

You want to group parts by final location: Frame, Cab, Engine, Trans, Elec, Cab interior etc.

Bert

[vtdeucedriver]

Glad I am not the only one!! Tired of tripping over everything myself. Soon it will all go in a 30ft trailer that will be inventoried as above and vehicle type as I go from 5 ton to 1/4

[m37jarhead]

Hey ! Keeping all my parts dis-organized, buried, hidden and helter skelter inside and outside of the shop
makes my wife think I'm really smart to be able to remember every part down to the last nut and bolt.
IF she really believes that, maybe I should get a pedestal to stand on when I'm talking her.
Finallly.... the respect I deserve ?
Jerry

[RMS]

thats awesome jerry

Soon it will all go in a 30ft trailer

thats what I thought about my 40ft, then the 20ft and the 10ft finally managed to get it all put away with an extra 8ft box

no wait, i just got offered another truck in pieces..........

[refit1701]

I have tubs of parts and forget where they are or if I even bought them. I wind up with two or three of things. But this is good at times when picking one to repair.

I try to keep them organised in a shed but as long as I keep buying stuff it will never be so.